The play “The Revenger’s Tragedy” by Middleton portrays the moral and political system in England of the seventeenth century, thus referring to the Elizabethan era. Considering the genre of the play, it should be mentioned that this work refers to the genre of the dark tragedy, as here it discloses the subject of death as the game on the edge of absurdity. The play represents the vice and retribution set in the greedy world.
The above lines also manifest the affiliation of the work to the period of reconstruction of mind and thought, where the drama took an important place. Relying on the first scene of the play, begging with the death of Antonio’s wife, one could perceive the Gothic style of representation of the tragedy and the mystery of death.